Keywords & Links
Even the right keywords mean little without links pointing
to your website.
Even the right keywords mean little without links pointing
to your website.
Is the process of finding out the words that your potential
customers use online..

The search results that we supposedly value so highly are themselves paid placements, just like Google's keyword ads. It's just that in the case of search results, link owners have paid for SEO (search-engine optimization) to get Google's attention instead of paying for SEM (search engine marketing) to make Google give their links prominence.
Google's famed PageRank algorithm carries less and less weight these days, since fresh news and results inherently don't have as many inbound links as older content. (If it helps, you can think of PageRank as a kind of paleo-social search--just one that moves way too slowly for the modern Web.)
It doesn't take a Google Search engineer to identify factors that threaten the ranking position and placement on search results.
A few of the more traditional black-hat approaches include cloaking with manipulative content; acquiring links from known link
brokers, outbound links to pages and sites
known as SPAM, and frequent server downtime and site inaccessibility.
Other factors include hidden text; excessive repetition of keywords; excessive numbers
of dynamic parameters, hiding text with CSS and excessive links from the same IP
address block.
The key is receiving "targeted" hits on your site. Keep in mind:
When someone visits my site,
I want it to be because I provide exactly what they are looking for...